January 15, 2015
The Internet is dangerous when it comes to private data and you can notice when is too late that your private information might be used in ways to affect you. Here we are talking especially by those from our credit cards which can be stolen and we realize only when is very late that our account is charged with some expenses that we didn’t do. Also, some companies might use our personal data in ways that we don’t agree. This is why President Barack Obama wants to introduce more security measures for Internet users.
Students will be protected
First of all, the number one man from the United States will make selling stolen data abroad as a criminal act, which might discourage companies to use randomly data about which they don’t know very much, but which can affect us in some ways. Besides this, the President wants to pass in the Congress the “Student Digital Privacy Act”, for the better protection of youngster. In Obama’s opinion, students are often very vulnerable because they are using many web sites for information and a big part of them ask them for personal data which after might be used in other purposes than normal.
Obama statement
About these initiatives, Obama also gave a statement: "Sometimes folks don't even find out their credit card information has been stolen until they see charges on their bill and then it's too late. So under the new standard that we're proposing, companies would have to notify consumers of a breach within 30 days. We pioneered the Internet, but we also pioneered the Bill of Rights and a sense that each of us as individuals have a sphere of privacy around us that should not be breached."
The last part about which he refers means that citizens are assured that they would know what type of information that online retailers and companies are gathering about them and how such information is used. They will be given the right to demand that the data should be used solely for its original purpose. Moreover, the law would require companies to use secure systems when storing an individual's personal information.